Science Reveals What We’ll Look Like in 1,000 Years

over the next 1,000 years Humanity might evolve to survive a car crash maybe we'll adapt to have text Claws and a tech neck due to our excessive smartphone usage or maybe we'll finally fuse with technology in this episode we're going to look at what scientists have theorized might be the next stage of human evolution and find out what the perfect human might look like in the future for our first first future human let's take a look at text claw Mindy she's got a hunched back a hand with a permanently molded text claw and an unnaturally

bent smartphone elbow in 1,000 years scientists are predicting this might be our reality but why well the humans who are alive today are wildly different from the humans that were alive thousands or millions of years ago we're no longer swinging on bran anch es no longer running away from tigers or fighting them today's humans are usually sitting down eyes glued to a computer all day this strains your neck and throws your spine out of balance humans were built to stand up straight not be couch potatoes but maybe future humans will evolve to have a hunchback

that would give us an evolutionary advantage in computer work and since we're always on our phones we might develop traits like text claw and smartphone elbow maybe these traits will pass on to the next Generation creating an army of Mindy like humans obsessed with their phones as if we're not already we've already started blending our bodies with technology but one day it might be hard to tell where the human ends and the tech begins I'm not talking about the stereotypical cyborgs you see in movies I'm talking about something much deeper you know in the future

we won't just be fusing synthetic elements with our organs we'll be merging them with our cells yeah imagine a world where synthetic cells could be introduced to our bodies to fight off some of the nastiest diseases sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie right well one company called imix biofarma is already making it happen and their first Target is a life-threatening disease called aloid ois aloid dois is caused by abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow that harm vital organs like the heart kidneys and liver patients often suffer fatigue weight loss shortness of breath

and severe organ damage but the worst part by the time they're diagnosed disease is usually in its late stages and there aren't any FDA approved drugs for relapsed or refractory cases that's where imix biofarma comes in they've developed nxc 2011 a car T cell therapy that's more than just a treatment it's a living medicine imix biofarma genetically modifies a patient cells to re-educate them teaching them to seek out and destroy the disease cells unlike temporary solutions like pills this is a one-time treatment option where the cells keep fighting until they've eliminated the problem in a

clinical trial nxc 2011 showed a whopping 92% overall response rate with some patients seeing long-term benefits IMX biopharma is also raising awareness with their be proactive in Al initiative which promotes early diagnosis and educates patients on the available treatment options by going after the root cause imix biopharma isn't just treating symptoms they're offering real hope of a cure to thousands of patients and their families they're leading the charge into the future of medicine one cell at a time but enough about these microscopic miracles you came here to see how weird humans will look over the

coming centuries and a lot of those changes in appearance will come from a different type of cell our cell phones see what I did there what's kind of wacky is how in this kind of tech heavy World your brain might evolve well let's start with your skull Studies have shown that radio frequency radiation from smartphones might be damaging your brain it might make your memory worse or affect your cognitive skill so Mindy over here was given a thicker skull this gives her brain protection from potential radiation via phones and bad news for the brain itself

it's going to get smaller yeah I know this doesn't sound great I can barely remember where I put my keys but this is just going to make it worse brains today are already much smaller than they used to be before the dawn of civilization human brains had to do a lot more work without advanced weapons we had to use our brains to save ourselves from predators without farming we had to remember where all the good fruit trees were well today technology does a lot of our thinking for us we've got calculators Google Maps and now

ai to do our programming or our homework our life today is simpler and safer with AI this trend of not having to think as much will continue in the future but more on that in a bit what about our overall size well this is a bit of a tossup because of two opposing Trends on the one hand life is no longer about the survival of the fittest in terms of size humans don't have to be big and strong to beat up tigers or other humans to see another day it's more important that they're financially Savvy

to survive while the threat from predators is reduced that doesn't mean humans are totally safe we've got new predators to worry about ones made by man climate change ongoing Wars a potential nuclear apocalypse and these threats are likely to continue so how could Humanity evolve in response well surviving climate change might happen two different ways the first may be to amass wealth and to use that wealth to protect from the effects of climate change maybe these humans will be the Hunchback computer type with the text claw they'll be running for their underground bunkers stocked with

caviar and sparkling water and shorting stalks all while tsunamis rage or radiation pulverizes everything the second group are people who aren't as lucky to hang out in bunkers they might evolve physical characteristics that help them survive to see what these may be let's take a little detour and look at this weird looking guy crash proof Graham meet crash proof Graham he's been built by scientists to survive a unique type of Devastation a car crash come to think of it getting caught in really bad weather is kind of like being in a car crash yeah a

tornado can throw you around and injure you quite badly with climate change the frequency of devastating hurricanes tornadoes and Other Extreme weather events is on the rise without that underground bunker we can look to Graham as the potential way humans could evolve to survive let's take a look at his brain Graham is able to survive devastating impacts because his brain is in cased in a bigger thicker skull one with more fluid around it to cushion the brain and more ligaments to hold it in place sounds like this would allow the brain to survive all sorts

of things car crashes tornadoes maybe even earthquakes then we get to the neck this is a particularly vulnerable part of the body if your head whips back and forth there's a lot of pressure on the vertebrae and your neck and they can break so a short thick neck or or even better no neck at all might be a survival Advantage Graham also has stronger ribs that could help his body survive a high impact crash plus a thick layer of tough skin that would protect against cuts and injuries and then there's a really weird trait that

might create a unique evolutionary Advantage joints that bend in multiple directions today our knee and elbow joints only fold in One Direction so impact from the wrong direction can make them break if we took these flexible joints from Graham it could help us survive whatever is coming our way in the next 1,000 years of course it may take longer than just 1,000 years for these traits to evolve but maybe given the rate at which the planet is warming we'll start to evolve these survival traits much faster I'm especially thinking about the billions of people in

the world who will have to Brave the elements as things get get worse the one difficulty that crash proof Graham might have as Evolution perfects his disaster resistant body he he might have trouble getting a date okay is there another version of future human who could evolve to be better than today's model maybe modern Jean splicing techniques can help build a new perfect version of you but one who's a little hotter than text claw Mindy and crash proof Graham anatomically amazing Alice here's Alice she's the brainchild of Dr Alice Roberts who came up with a

new better design for the human body cleaning up the messy bits from what evolution gave us her perfect body would take the eyes from an octopus allowing us to see better the next fix would be our ears when you're young you hear pretty well but as you age tiny hair cells in your inner ears get worn out so your hearing gets worse instead of trying to make those little cells regrow we could just get bigger ears you know like a cat these would be better at amplifying sound I got to admit they look pretty cool

then there's the throat perfect Alice has two separate pipes one for air and another for food Mind by me okay and now for something special that's got to do with babies no not that the human pelvis evolved to support us properly while walking upright but it definitely doesn't have room for one thing large headed babies which is what humans tend to have this makes childbirth pretty difficult so I've heard the perfect human body would borrow a trick from the kangaroo how about a little pouch this way we could give birth to smaller babies at a

younger stage and have them mature in our pouch just like marsupial do then there's our skin if you're kind of fair skinned like me you can get sunburnt and be at risk of skin cancer yikes one solution is to just go for darker skin which doesn't burn as easily but even cooler might be to borrow another trait from the octopus it can change its skin color now with that trait light-skinned people can keep their light color in Winter and get darker in the summer for protection finally the human leg could do with a fix yeah

slow and tough to move ostrich like legs might be the solution we make the lower leg less muscly and make the feet light so they're better equipped to run the final touches are shorter chimpanzee like spines which are less likely to get compressed as we age but sorry that means no Slender wastes for anyone hearts with more interlined arteries so you never get a heart attack and air sacks like what birds have have rather than our lungs anatomically amazing Alice looks pretty cool if scientists begin to splice some genes we might just get to this

point in the next 1,000 years but wait a minute with advances in biomedical research we've already begun fusing technology with the human body what are some of these modifications we're likely to see in the future transh humanic Tim meet transh humanic Tim whose body is part human part machine they're merged with technology so they can see better hear better remember more run faster fight disease better and even more amazing live forever maybe Tim will wear a modern hearing aid which will not only amplify sounds that are far away it can record sound and create White

Noise today bionic eyes help blind people see they're surgically implanted devices that improve sensitivity to life so that people can distinguish between shapes and tell the difference between a knife and a fork but in Future these kinds of implants will help transh humanic Tim see things they've never seen before x-ray vision can become Tim's reality tomorrow's enhanced human might also have implanted devices that improve memory in 1,000 years maybe we'll all have that skill today scientists are making prosthetic devices implanted in the brain that can de decode how you store memories then apply neuros stimulation

to help the person retrieve those memories later as the technology gets better we'll each have a built-in encyclopedia and our ability to fight diseases will be better than ever not only will this help humans live longer but potentially forever not living forever in your regular human body but uploading your brain to a server now this would be incredibly complex because of the sheer volume of information in our brains but let's say we somehow cracked that code we managed to find a way to upload all of our information to some storage space what's next assuming that

humans 1,000 years from now aren't regenerating our limbs where would our brains go they sit in a computer or go into a new robotic body that will be the last stage of transh humanic Tim and it'll last forever now all these have evolutionary upgrades are pretty incredible but can we do better the perfect future human okay now that we've learned a bit more about what the next 1,000 years will bring it's time to build our own version of the perfect future human let's take the bits we like the best physically speaking this human will be

taller yeah the challenges with climate change May favor smaller humans for a little while but better nutrition and natural selection will push for greater height I like the bigger eyes and Feline ears from Alice I'm not sure everyone needs x-ray vision but maybe if you're going to med school you get equipped with bionic eyes our future human definitely needs a thicker skull protecting a smaller brain but with much bigger brain power because they're equipped with a memory enhancing prosthetic that gives them that photographic memory this makes School a breeze and puts Google Maps out of

business plus it has another advantage since we future humans will be able to remember a lot we're not on the phone all the time so no text claw for future human and no hunched back with massive tsunamis storms and tornadoes happening more frequently in the future our future humans need to stay strong so I'm going with the heavy duty rib cage and the shorter spine two features that will protect and age well thanks for that idea Graham as for the marsupial pouch I'm thinking about that one as brains shrink well maybe baby heads will get

smaller and regular child birth will be easier if not I'm definitely including a pouch so child birth is not as painful as it is today both crash proof Graham and anatomically amazing Alice had noted improvements with legs and feet so our future humans will have those knees that bend Any Which Way Slimmer ostrich-like calves and lighter springy feet I'm also going with a set of multi-purpose Nanobots that roam inside the future human body they can decimate a tumor reduce inflammation when they see it and generally enhance the body's immune system all right our future human

looks pretty cool ready to take on the terrifying challenges of 3000 ad like for instance what if there were a catastrophic situation where land and water switched places overnight would our human survive well that's a story for another what if